Pontoon Beach, IL

Description

Pontoon Beach was a repeater station on a K-carrier route.
K-carrier was a system for transmitting twelve two-way voice circuits on two twisted pairs of copper wires in a cable, using frequency-division multiplexing.
Repeaters were installed approximately every 17 miles to amplify the signal.

K-carrier technology is no longer used, and the route and station are not in service.

Images

Photographed on July 24, 2007 by Tim Fox
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